The Tragedy of King Lear
Shakespeare's tragedy set in a bleak, post-modern industrial society.
Director: Rafael DeAcha
New Theatre: 6/2004
Rafael described to me a very desolate setting for this piece where we might hear, but not see, various bits of machinery making noise. I used a variety of sampled metallic sounds to achieve the machine sounds and used the violin and lithophone to provide a warmer texture with which to work. A shofar, instead of traditional brass instruments, was used for the various calls to convey a sense of the primitive nature of the forces at work in this play.
